What three amendments to the Constitution were passed following the Civil War that created a foundation for civil rights as we understand them today? What did the amendments say? Which of these amendments applied to women as well as men, and which
did not? How did women finally achieve the rights denied to them under these amendments?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, List the three amendments and what they said: The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment declared all people as citizens and guaranteed them equal protection of the laws; and the Fifteenth Amendment said states could not prevent people from voting on grounds of race, color, or previous position of servitude.
2, Identify that women were included in the Thirteenth Amendment; however, they were excluded from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments by the fact that gender was not included in the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Supreme Court ruled in Minorv. Happersett (1874) that women's suffrage was not an inherent right in the citizenship guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment.
3, Detail that women finally achieved the right to vote in 1920 under the Nineteenth Amendment.
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a. Bill Clinton's job approval rating was very similar to George W. Bush's. b. Bill Clinton's job approval ratings increased steadily from the beginning. c. Bill Clinton always had higher job approval ratings than George W. Bush. d. Bill Clinton had higher job approval ratings in his second term than in his first term.
A liberal internationalist approach is grounded in all of the following core values and beliefs except
a. the promotion of democracies and individual freedoms to create peaceful international order. b. promoting international cooperation to knit states and peoples in a web of interdependence to address common problems and reduce risk of conflict. c. using defensive realism policies to ensure unilateral efforts will protect the interests of the United States. d. utilizing regional and global organizations as international institutions have a civilizing effect on states. e. making constructive leadership efforts that reflect upon the Wilsonian roots of international cooperation with both states and non-state actors.